Panellists from buy-side and sell-side discuss the growing importance of structured products in wealth management and risk management strategies at the SRP Asia Pacific 2025 conference in Hong Kong SAR last week.

The whirlwind of volatility driven by US President Trump’s tariffs has puzzled investors over the direction of traditional assets. But this has created "strong demand" for structured products this year. That's according to Karrie Fung ( pictured ), head of wealth management sales and execution for Asia at UBP, who kicked off the wealth management panel discussion. “At the beginning of the first quarter, we have seen [structured products] year-on-year growth of almost 100%. And then